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Dan Lyke

@interfluidity amen. Don't even get me fucking started on Safari's boneheaded "here's the title of the document during autocomplete".

I use Safari as my work only browser, and trying to URL hack Jira items (because Jira is absolutely awful) is super annoying. On the other hand, what am I gonna do, dedicate a better browser to work logins?

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Hella

@danlyke @interfluidity
firefox -ProfileManager
is a great help for such situations, you just dedicate a profile for work logins.

(Sincere condolences on having to use Jira, lucky me got rid of that when I changed job recently.)

cuan_knaggs

@unixwitch if you've not seen it yet, ff container tabs and temporary containers can help a lot with this too @danlyke @interfluidity

Dan Lyke

@mensrea @unixwitch thanks. Firefox has enough glitches with web compatibility and, especially, PDF handling (ugh having to go to Chrome to get unaltered versions of my auto insurance cards) that I haven't chased profiles too far, but now that I'm off Chrome for everything but Meet, and have told FF to only download PDFs, never display them, it might be usable for work.

cuan_knaggs

@danlyke i've been having some issue recently with some sites not login in correctly with ff but none of those other issues. wouldn't it be nice if we could have a browser that actually did what we wanted @unixwitch

RealGene ☣️

@mensrea @danlyke @unixwitch
There's a bug in Firefox with regard to auto-filled passwords. Try typing a space at the end of the filled password, then backspace. It will probably work.

cuan_knaggs

@RealGene it's not an auth issue though. there's issues with sites not managing their file and data sources properly so it's falling foul of the cross site scripting protections

Dan Lyke

@RealGene since one of my things on work project is writing the password completion for a browser, I hate React with the firey passion of ten thousand suns, and I kinda get it when it doesn't work. Sigh.

Dan Lyke

@mensrea I think we did, it was called Lynx. w3-mode if we wanted to be fancy. One of the first things to that got me attention on my blog (in 1998) was pointing out that the Web Standards Project was going to create a monoculture, and... here we are.

I suspect my PDF ills are fond issue on these Macs in particular, I can't browse music from Musicnotes either. But the fact that if you download from a PDF view in Firefox it munges the file is.... not cool.

cuan_knaggs

@danlyke my partner is having issues with pdfs on their mac as well but we chalked that up to the adobe subscription experiencing. and they've been using ff to do all their pdf reading

Dan Lyke

@mensrea yay that FF works! I've avoided poisoning these machines with Adobe, still use Preview for all my PDF-ness. And that, at least works. So I use Chrome for downloading insurance cards and buying sheet music, and have set Firefox to hopefully never try to display them, just download them.

cuan_knaggs

@danlyke no adobe? someone likes to live a clean life

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